Improvement in carriage-pole tips



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

SAMUEL MASON, OF HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-POLE TIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,885, dated December23, 1873 application filed April 16,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL lVIASON, of Hamden, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inPole-Crab for Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the. accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, 1n-

Figure 1, a side View, and in Fig. 2 a sectional view.

This invention relates to an improvement in what is known as acarriage-pole crab--that is to say, the tip for the end of the pole.This has usually been formed by forging, and made in several parts,riveted or welded together, hence making this an expensive part of thecarriage-ironin g, and which is usually done by the carriage-smith. Theobject of this invention is. to produce a tubular tip, upper and lowerstraps, the tip-eye, and holdback ready for the carriage-maker to apply,and at a greatly-reduced price; and it consists in form: ing the tubulartip, upper and lower straps, the tip-eye, and holdback complete, in asingle piece, from malleable cast metal.

A is the tubular portion or tip; B, the upper and C the lower strap torun back onto the pole. An eye, D, is formed at the forward end, andbeneath an arm, E, projects downward to form a shoulder for theholdback, and with a brace, F, running back from the said arm.

This article is molded and cast in the usual manner of making ironcastings, and then treated by the usual malleableizing process.

The arm E beneath may be of other form than that shown, a shoulder ofsome character only being necessary.

This pole-crab is in a single piece, and produced at very much less costthan the usual method of construction, and is furnished to the trade asan article of manufacture.

I do not broadly claim a pole crab or tip formed from cast metal.

I claim as my invention- As an article of manufacture, theherein-described carriage pole or tip, consisting of the tubular portionA, with the straps B C projecting therefrom, and the eye D formed on itsforward end, and the downward-projecting holdback E, all formed in oneand the same piece, from cast metal, substantially as set forth.

SAMUEL MASON.

W'itn esses CECIL A. BURLEIGI-I, JAMES H. GILBERT.

